the thing is, cis women and trans women are the same gender, we're both goddamn women, and what forms of oppression you face don't change your fucking gender
same with cis men and trans men, they're both men, just that one subset is trans and often faces transphobia; that doesn't mean either is not men in terms of gender
what the people flipping out about a lack of nuance don't fucking understand is that there's always nuance, and it's NOT THE FUCKING POINT OF THE CONVERSATION
like, if you take two cis women, say, my mum and grandma; they're both the exact same gender, they're women
but also they've had vastly different life experiences so they experience that gender very differently
it's the same fucking thing between, say, me, a transfem, and my cis mum; we're both woman, despite experiencing that gender very differently
trans women are just another form of being a woman, we aren't somehow a special different gender, we're GODDAMN WOMEN
and like i don't think you need to be a fucking genius to see how it's invalidating to people's genders if you start going "um ackhyually you're different genders"
like the whole GODDAMN POINT of the statement "trans and cis women are the exact same gender" is that WE'RE BOTH WOMEN
the difference is in that we experience womanhood differently, you know, like every single fucking cis woman also does; my mum doesn't experience her gender the same way my grandma does who doesn't experience it the same way former president Tarja Halonen does; and it's the EXACT SAME THING when you add a trans woman, say, me, to the equation; EVERYONE INVOLVED IS A FUCKING WOMAN, even though said womanhood is experienced differently per person
and it's the same thing with trans men, who are just one kind of man, the exact same gender as cis men, even if said gender is shaped by different things and experienced differently; you know, just like it is between any given two cis men
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